Comment on Captain, remember your breathing exercises. They're not worth it.

• xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah yes valuable skills like sensing that the romulans may be hiding something.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And that the alien who is yelling seems angry

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And the Ferengi is scheming. Oh, wait, she can’t read Ferengi.

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  • LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Show was written in a time before streaming, before people could record TV. She was there to explain to the audience, who were assumed to not be aware of the previous episodes, who the bad guys are.

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    • verity_kindle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good point! I had VHS tapes that had been recorded over too much…I often missed half an ep, because I set the timer wrong or I already had a good one and I tried to record a second on the same tape.

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  • orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The stories which her empathy abilities are more useful don’t make it to the show unfortunately, they’re over too quickly. That’s my theory.

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• fleeb@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah. She’s an empath that can size up the adversary over a FaceTime call. Pretty awesome advantage!

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